South Korea’s KOMCA Quietly Reverses Its Stance on AI, Reimplementing a Zero-Tolerance Policy Amid Pushback

Seoul, South Korea. Photo Credit: Yeojin Yun
Weeks after adjusting its rules to allow the registration of certain machine-generated works, the Korea Music Copyright Association (KOMCA) has quietly returned to a zero-tolerance AI policy.KOMCA just recently implemented the change, which is live on the appropriate website. For a bit of background, the Seoul-based society in April 2025 confirmed a straight registration ban extending to both AI-generated and -assisted works.
Though Lee Si-ha stepped